SALTY September book thoughts don't watch if you're sensitive about your biblical beliefs

[@BookZealots]

Hey KZbin, how about you stop shadowbanning people's comments!

[@reneeb7400]

@@BookZealots Hello. Thank you for replying! Yes, my general understanding is that God instituted the sabbath so that man could rest for all their work on the seventh day (Saturday). This rest IS forever but now that we have Jesus we have a “spiritual rest” from our “work” (working to be right with God) we don’t have to do that anymore because Jesus did it for us. Our sabbath is eternal but it is resting on Jesus. So it was moved to Resurrection Day Sunday to signify this new rest from our work of spiritual striving. See Hebrews 4 on this topic.

[@reneeb7400]

@@BookZealots KZbin deleted my reply! Hello! Yes, my general understanding has been that God instituted the sabbath so that man would rest from all his WORK on the seventh day (Saturday). But after Jesus rose we now have a “ spiritual rest” from all our WORK ( striving and trying to be right with God by our own strength) because Jesus did ALL of that for us. So we now have rest in him. So our ETERNAL sabbath was moved to Resurrection day Sunday to signify this. Yes it is forever! See Hebrews 4.

[@BookZealots]

@@reneeb7400 click on the three lines by the sort by (next to how many comments there are directly under the video) click on newest and your comment should show up. I don't know why the platform shadowbanned your comment. They've been extremely suppressive lately. It's frustrating. Thanks for the info.

[@BookZealots]

@@reneeb7400 Thank you so much for reposting all of that.

[@ThisLittleLightLife]

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[@thebookcompanion7324]

Got some great book recs from this. Thanks! Also, love your channel. Lots of intelligent information.

[@BookZealots]

Oh yay! I hope you enjoy the books you found interesting, whenever you get to them. I've subscribed to your channel. I look forward to more of your content. I'll comment in a bit on your video. Thank you so much for commenting. Have you been subscribed long?

[@thebookcompanion7324]

@@BookZealots Oh thank you for subscribing! That's very sweet of you! I'm actually a pretty new subscriber to your channel. I stumbled across your channel maybe about a month or so ago and have watched quite a few of your recent videos and enjoyed them all. Your channel has been one of my favorites lately. Your content is so honest and I appreciate that so much. It's hard to come by these days.

[@BookZealots]

@@thebookcompanion7324 I'm very happy to have you. Other than the books, communicating with people is our favorite thing about booktube. Thank you for your feedback too. It is hard to find details that Christians might be concerned about, so I try to do that. Sometimes I forget too and then I'm hitting my forehead. 🤦‍♀ LOL

[@Already-Overbooked]

This was a great video! I really enjoyed it

[@BookZealots]

Thank you for letting me. I really appreciate it.

[@CandlewickLibrary]

I have had the Not enough faith to be an atheist on my list, so I appreciate your thoughts on it.

[@BookZealots]

Hi Cheryl, The issues I had in the book might not bother you. I got more out of a book I read today by Phil Robertson. But I am still planning on looking throught the I don't have enough faith to be an atheist workbook and see if it's valuable.

[@HideAndRead]

"WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY!" Every Machiavelli hater claims otherwise 😂

[@BookZealots]

oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that makes so much sense. Thank you. I didn't consider that aspect of why people don't like Machiavelli. I had tried to get information about the book, (long before I even owned it), from someone in a live feed, on another booktuber's channel. He was so vague I chalked it up to he didn't read it or didn't understand it. But now... now I have a new perspective. Thank you.

[@holt_arr]

Hi hello and so salty! What a wrapup and what a month! I'm a little surprised you didn't enjoy James but I can see why. Big props for reading those big Russian books! They've always been so intimidating to me and I dunno why Thanks for sharing and take care! Hope you got a winner on your TBR for October :)

[@BookZealots]

James could have been great ......but the author ..... I was so disappointed. Crime and Punishment's psychology is done really well. I'm considering doing a more indepth review. I'm not sure. I wrote the cast in the back and their relations so I didn't get confused. It's a mystery, sort of, so if you like mysteries, and morals play a part in the end.... I was wondering if something else was going to happen. I'm reading great books this month, but Sept was still a good month. Happy reading~

[@reneeb7400]

“Sabbath” technically speaking is Friday at sundown until Saturday at sundown. This is what the authors are saying they discontinued after the Resurrection.

[@BookZealots]

Hello! The platform shadowbanned your comment and then deleted my response. How rude of them. Yes! I agree with you on the day of the Sabbath. It is according to the Jewish "day" as you explained. Gold told his people to keep the Sabbath holy forever and in Acts is shows the disciples continuing to observe the Sabbath; even Paul when he became a follower of Christ. At what point did they stop? Because if gentiles are grafted in and are now part of the tree, and even guests or strangers must observe then we should also be observing. Right? If you have some verses I'd love to know them and study them. I haven't done a deep dive on the subject, but forever means forever. I appreciate you commenting and hopefully this response will go through.

[@CourtneyReads]

Yes! A Constitutional Republic! Also, the interviews and word salad. So much of that these days.

[@BookZealots]

I didn't mention one of my pet peeves of how people speak today, but I think it could be included in the word salad and that's the word "like" every three words. And there are so many college students that speak this way. It doesn't sound intelligent at all and it's distracting from what they're trying to say.

[@CourtneyReads]

@@BookZealots I sometimes suffer from that deficiency myself 😅

[@BookZealots]

@@CourtneyReads Do you? Honestly, I haven't noticed it. It's impossible for me to continue a video when it's constant. I'm trying to stop say, "um, so" incessantly. LOL

[@CourtneyReads]

@@BookZealots I probably do it more in conversation than in videos.

[@Littlebiglibrary]

Thank you for posting this. Because last week I found the novel, James. And after watching this video I have decided that I am not going to read it. Thankfully I only paid 50 cents for my copy. I'm not even sure why I bought it because I do not care for anything written by Mark Twain. I never got past one or two chapters in both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. For some reason, which I can not explain, I just do not enjoy the way Mark Twain writes. And I agree with you about the Little things that you know to not be true or correct in a novel. I am currently reading The Revenant. A movie was made from the story. That early 1800's American West movie, where a Huge Bear attacks a Trapper and he is left to die but doesn't die. I haven't seen the movie. But in the novel some things that the author writes about doesn't match up to what I've read in other Non Fiction books. Books such as "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee". So knowing what I've read in non fiction books, the fact that in the novel it is almost the complete opposite really bothers me and takes me out of the story. I will explain when I review the novel. And, and! When you Soft DNF a book, do you pick up where you left off? Or, do you do like me and start all over from the beginning? I have to start all over again to bring me up to speed. It's just something I do and it annoys me. Yes, I annoy myself! Sorry for such a short comment. I was in a hurry! Thank you -James.

[@BookZealots]

ahahahahaha, I LOVE the way you ended your comment James. I had to read your comment to Prometheus. I felt sad at first that I ruined James for you. Mark Twain's writing is much better. I think you would appreciate his book Roughing It. I did see your bookhaul with James and didn't want to say anything negative about it. If you want specific details I'm willing to share them in the comments so you can make a more informed decision. I had to look up The Revenant, (the movie). I saw your video talking about the book. I look forward to your review on it and how the author got things wrong. Since you mentioned Bury My Heart... I gather the author of The Revenant got things wrong about survival or specifically tribes? I usually remember enough of a book I soft dnf'd that I do not start over. Just today I asked Prometheus if I should start all over with the Mayflower by Philbrick and he said no. We have the documentary and they followed the book really well. That was the whole reason I put the book down. I felt I had already read the book. If I didn't get very far into a fictional book and soft dnf'd it, I will start at the very beginning. Oh my goodness James, you had me laughing when you explained your frustration with yourself and I thoroughly enjoyed your short comment. Hopefully next time you'll have more time to comment in length. 🤗 Hugs to Bella. Her rest and sunshine (anywhere but on the grass) will do her good.

[@CourtneyReads]

I didn't finish my reread of Crime and Punishment, but I love that book. The epilogue was not originally going to be included, from what I remember. I think in many ways it would be better without the epilogue, but I can also understand including it because he was trying to bring the religious aspects introduced full circle. Either way, I find it very thought provoking and will read it many more times I'm sure.

[@BookZealots]

Oh, I didn't know that. Okay, yes, I think the book would be so much better with out the ending/epilogue. The writing is great and the psychology is great. I was sucked into the story and was in that tomb of a room he dwelled in. I was mentally in that book. Not many authors can do that. Have you read Brother's karamazov? And should I stop before the ending? LOL I was wondering so many options and wondering which way FD would have his character go.

[@CourtneyReads]

@@BookZealots I've read Brothers Karamazov a couple of times. The end is a little lackluster, but he had intended a sequel that he never got to write since he died shortly after it was published.

[@BookZealots]

@@CourtneyReads hmmm, that's what I was thinking about the ending of Crime and Punishment; where's part two? Well, maybe if I go into Bros. K. it was be as disappointing, because he had planned on a sequel. ??? Hopefully I'll get to it next year. Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it.

[@Fernie4243]

Those great Russians loved their stories with sidebars of other stories, which I love. From my understanding, they loved Dickens, who loves his stories with sidebar other stories. I love them so much. LOL Do they tie up those stories a slightly too-tight bow at the end sometimes? Yes, but I still love those stories.

[@CourtneyReads]

@@Fernie4243 Russian novels (particularly those of Dostoevsky) are my favorite. And yes, greatly influenced by Dickens!

[@BookZealots]

I didn't even notice the side stories in Crime and Punishment, because they tied in well with the characters. The writing drew me int. I was in that story. The psychology was excellent as well. But the ending! =P LOL I love Dickens! He's one of my favorite authors.

[@Fernie4243]

@@BookZealots I had planned to read The Idiot next when I get back to Mr D., now I want to do this one. Maybe January. I think I have all his novels and only read the first and last. I will probably change my mind before then.

[@BookZealots]

@@Fernie4243 I haven't read The Idiot. If you read it next year, let me know if you'd be interested in a buddyread.

[@Fernie4243]

@@BookZealots Yes, I'd like that. I think by January I will want a break from the British Isles. I have lots of Russian history and literature on my shelves I really wanted to get into. Maybe spend a month or two there before getting back to more Dickens alternating between him and Steinbeck. That's my tentative plan, but who knows what other rabbit hole I may find.

[@CourtneyReads]

The Professor and the Madman sounds really interesting.

[@BookZealots]

Courtney, I think you would really appreciate this book. The sacrifices these men made to get these volumes organized is amazing. I seriously want the Oxford volumes now that I've read this book.

[@angieandthegreatworld]

Can you explain what each colored tab represents?

[@BookZealots]

I keep meaning to record a video about my annotation system. Basically green is good information, something that I really like, whether it's nonfiction/fiction. Blue is information I want to research. Red/orange/pink/yellow are for items that are in error, vileness, bad writing, etc of varying degrees. purple is something I want to recall, something endearing, etc.